Book Description
Five original stories where strange changes occur, from a boy and a cat changing places and a young man learning the price of selfishness to an invisible princess finding herself.
Author : Avi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152057909
Five original stories where strange changes occur, from a boy and a cat changing places and a young man learning the price of selfishness to an invisible princess finding herself.
Author : Carlo Gozzi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 1989-08-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226305805
This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five Gozzi's most famous plays: The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman, and The Green Bird, each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface.
Author : Various
Publisher : RH/Disney
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0736428453
A collection of five stories with all the toys and their adventures.
Author : Sivadasa
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141907924
Half mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with a vetala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse. The emperor begs the spirit for his help against a mighty necromancer and is told in return twenty-four tales, each of which presents a situation he might face as a king and culminates in a riddle that he must solve. With each answer, Vikramaditya displays his deep wisdom, proving himself to be the ideal monarch and winning, in the twenty-fifth tale, the guidance he needs from the vetala to destroy his powerful enemy. Written down in medieval times but inspired by an oral tradition stretching back centuries, these wise and witty tales rank amongst the great masterpieces of Sanskrit literature.
Author : Sunbird Readers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780198069232
Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484775028
A collection of five stories follows Sofia through such adventures as hiking with her Buttercups troop, learning to ride a flying horse, and entering a pet contest.
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Sue DiCicco
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525645160
Five classic Little Golden Books have been adapted as early readers in this Step into Reading collection! With five Step into Reading stories featuring some of the most beloved Little Golden Book characters of all time—from the classics The Poky Little Puppy, The Shy Little Kitten, Tawny Scrawny Lion, Scuffy the Tugboat, and Tootle—this collection of fun and engaging Step 1 readers will help children develop a lifelong love of reading. Step 1 readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.
Author : Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780252026553
A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramn y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity. Ramn y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories because he feared they would compromise his scientific career. Featuring the cutting-edge science of the mid-1880s (microscopy, bacteriology, and hypnosis), they probe the seductive power that proceeds from scientific knowledge and explore how the pursuit of such knowledge alternately redeems and ensnares humanity. Here revenge is disguised as research and common fraud as moral purification. Critical thought vies with moribund tradition and stifling religion for a hold on the human spirit; rigid divisions of class and wealth dissolve before the indiscriminate assault of microbes. One man's faith in science gives him the tools to outwit superstition and win the true love and happiness for which he has sacrificed. that melds the epiphany of A Christmas Carol with the macabre detail of an Edgar Allan Poe story.Now available for the first time in English, Ramn y Cajal's stories reveal a great deal about human nature and the collusion of ambition and greed that prey on the hapless and thoughtless, whether in the name of science, religion, or the state. Laura Otis, whose dual background in literature and science echoes that of the author, has crafted a sparkling translation that captures the wit and imagination of the original.
Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368019095
Young readers will love this collection of five Disney Junior World of Reading Level 1 titles featuring their favorite Disney Junior friends, the Puppy Dog Pals, Vampirina, and Mickey and the Roadster Racers!